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He explained explicitly to Leslie Stahl in 2016 that he attacked the media so that it wouldn’t be believed when it reported anything unflattering about him. That admission should have been referenced over and over again by the media as Tump ramped up his attacks.

They’ve been one of the worst corporations for years. Enough.

Rep. Garcia is launching an investigation into Trump’s extortion of ABC.

“Every American has a duty to stand up for our First Amendment values. We will not be silent as our freedoms are threatened by corrupt schemes and threats. Anyone who is complicit will need to answer to us,” the lawmaker said in a statement. 

with his fawning comments about Charlie Kirk. Is there no degradation that Trump will not inspire?

It is one thing to condemn Kirk’s murder. It is something else entirely to lie before the world about who Kirk was.

They have planned a ritual humiliation and shakedown for Kimmel: to get back on the air, he must recant for telling the truth about the right-wing’s exploitation of Kirk’s murder; he must contribute money to Kirk’s family, while they will broadcast propaganda tributes to Kirk, who was a hate-mongering bigot and demagogue.

The Democrats need to convene shadow hearings on Trump and FCC Chief Brendan Carr’s extortion of our media conglomerates.

She lost, in part, because she refused to call out and debunk Trump’s absurd claims that kids were going to school and coming back as the opposite sex, one of many canards that Trump floated, which Harris and her team apparently thought were so ridiculous they didn’t need to be disputed.

Their capitulation to Trump’s ridiculous lawsuit against Stephanopolous was just the beginning. It’s shocking but not surprising that they have just canned Jimmy Kimmel for telling the truth about MAGA’s sinful exploitation of Kirk’s murder.

What a travesty corporate media has become. As partner to fascism, ABC takes second place to no one. Kimmel doesn’t need them, and he will come out of this more successful than ever.

In the meantime, Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee are investigating Paramount’s bribing Trump with the CBS settlement in order to get their merger approved.

ABC’s Nexstar too, is looking to merge–their attempt at bribery must be prosecuted.

Last week, President Trump retched out some of the disgusting and dangerous rhetoric ever transmitted from the Oval Office. It is clear from his own consistent statements and that of his cult that they are going to exploit Kirk’s murder to attempt to overturn democracy in this country.

Sen. Schumer and Rep. Jeffries, leaders-in-name only of the Democratic Party, continue to sit on their hands and keep their lips sealed. Very few Democrats, in fact, have stepped up to call out the threat. Their fear of escalating tensions gives the GOP fascists a clear berth to escalate tensions to the breaking point.

Sen. Murhy, however, just issued a lengthy statement that makes clear what the stakes are: “Trump and his anti-democratic radicals look to be readying a campaign to destroy dissent.”

Governor Newsom, too, has broken free of his five-day torpor:

“Wake up, America. Stephen Miller has already publicly labeled the Democratic Party as a terrorist organization. This isn’t about crime and safety. It’s about dismantling our democratic institutions. We cannot allow acts of political violence to be weaponized and used to threaten tens of millions of Americans.”

which voted for Mamdani in the primaries. According to Leader Jeffries, they didn’t. What will he lie about next? How bogus are the excuses he gives for not resisting Trump?

In The Atlantic, Alex Shepard rightly calls the Dems ” a decrepit party that has been a shambles for years,” and the behavior of Schumer, Gillibrand, and Jeffries demonstrates exactly how it got that way.

In the meantime, however, Trump has guaranteed Mamdani’s election by threatening to withhold funds legally owed to New York State and New York State if he wins. New York City already hates Trump–his path of destruction and corruption began here–and his threats will make the city’s electorate hate him even more.

who refuse to endorse Mamdani, and feckless idiot Hakim Jeffries, instead of being chastened, launches a “Chris Van Who?” riposte of bitchery. Democratic leadership is adamently opposed to any truly progressive manifestation.

 According to the Washington Post, Van Hollen deemed the Democrats too “cautious” and “rudderless” . . trafficking in “poll-washed and pundit-rinsed and donor-dried messages.”

Van Hollen is attempting to combat the death wish of Establishment Democrats, who don’t seem to care if the party goes down as long as they are successful in resisting a platform that their wealthy donors might not approve of.

Let’s not forget how wealthy Democratic donors sabotaged Harris’s campaign.